INTRODUCTION Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the persistent inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.1 According to data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, up to 52% of men between the ages of 40 and 70 are affected by ED.2 Based on findings from the 2001–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), it is estimated that 18...

1 Ontologies need to be managed In the OnToKnowledge project, several ontologies are developed and used in a number of applications and case-studies. Those ontologies need to be stored, sometimes aligned and their evolution needs to be managed. All these tasks together are called ontology management. These issues are not only relevant in the OnToKnowledge project, but are also in a broader cont...

Distributed system management, involves monitoring the activity of a system, making management decisions and performing control actions to modify the behaviour of the system. Most of the research on management has concentrated on management mechanisms related to Network Management or Operating Systems. However, in order to automate the management of very large distributed systems, it is necessa...

Pancreatic lithiasis causing chronic pancreatitis is a very rare entity in childhood. A five-year-old girl presenting with pancreatic lithiasis was treated successfully with a well-organized diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm. The authors emphasize that early diagnosis followed by appropriate therapeutic pancreatographic procedures instead of primary invasive surgical approach can certainly a...